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Cure Alzheimer’s Fund is grateful to President Obama for the Administration’s continued commitment to curing Alzheimer’s disease. With the implementation of the first ever National Plan To End Alzheimer’s Disease, to which Cure Alzheimer’s Fund was a contributor, and his specific targeting of the disease last night in the State of the Union address, President Obama has highlighted a national resolve to defeat this disease.

Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has been awarded the highest rating for sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency by Charity Navigator, the country’s largest and most-utilized independent evaluator of charities.

Cure Alzheimer's Fund (CAF) welcomes two new Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., president of The Rockefeller University, and former CAF Research Consortium member Robert C. Malenka, M.D., Ph.D., of Stanford University.

A Pittsburgh philanthropist and retired Mellon exec thinks so. In 1988, Jeffrey L. Morby left American Express to join the management team tapped to rescue the nearly bankrupt Mellon Bank. After helping turn Mellon around, he retired at 59, but Morby has hardly been wiling away the time.

When Maggie Campbell’s mother-in-law, Nancy Drapeau, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease last summer at age 59, Campbell decided she wanted to do something to help. Originally from Omaha, Neb., Campbell is a bookbinder and letterpress printer in Brooklyn, N.Y.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Research Consortium, we want to thank all the donors, researchers and academic institutional partners supporting Cure Alzheimer’s Fund research for your help in making 2011 such a successful science year. Guided by leading scientists in the field, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund-supported research continues to make breakthrough progress toward our goal of eradicating Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, but its most devastating effects can’t be counted. The disease steals away memories; it turns loved ones into strangers; it makes home unfamiliar and takes away all the things that define an individual. And, until recently, there’s been little hope of stopping its progress.

Cure Alzheimer’s Fund was founded to support cutting-edge, high-potential research to help the Alzheimer’s research community get on a smarter, faster trajectory toward a cure.